My life and times
We had our FIEA christmas party tonight, and fun was had by all. The 20 or so of us went to Buca di Beppo, and got a smattering of menu items - definitely the best way to do Buca. Got to try lots of different things, and even got some dessert. Way [...]
While out last night at the Cheesecake Factory at Mall of Millenia, I saw Dwight Howard, which was pretty awesome. Dude is huge, and was dressed up in a pinstripe suit. That’s a great restaurant, he’s got good taste.
The first semester of FIEA went out with a bang, and we will [...]
Well - I had fun at Siggraph. Our FIEA booth looked great, much better arrangement than we had at GDC. We also had a lot more promising students stop by for a gander and sometimes more. One of the best things we did was bring a student laptop and widescreen monitor and [...]
Well, it’s good to return somewhat to normal with the family home and such. I was glad to hear that they had a great time visiting family and friends in Utah - I only wish I could’ve been with them. I’m not sure I would’ve lasted 3 weeks, but it would’ve been good [...]
Well, with my new job comes new responsibilities. Like needing to remember things. And I’m really bad at that, as I’ve come to find out over the last couple months. I’ve also struggled when traveling, wishing I had access to my email when I wasn’t near my computer, and since I’ll be [...]
I made it back from the concrete jungle of LA in one piece, so that’s kinda neat. Shout outs to Chandler, Rich, Bob and Bill - it was great hanging out with all you guys. My PSP came up huge on the way home, Jordan in row 10 or so, and I in [...]
We made it up to Rock Hill, South Carolina last night around midnight, and got all dressed up this morning to go over to my second cousin Lindsay’s graduation from Winthrop University’s Riley College of Education. She looked beautiful as she always does, but she just seemed to be even more glowing today [...]
Took off Monday morning bright and early to recruit students from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill and Washington University in St. Louis. Flight was full but uneventful, and the drive to Carbondale from the St. Louis Airport was a piece of cake. Going through territory like that makes me sad, because I [...]
Work definitely heated up this week, that’s for sure. I would say this week was 20 hours FIEA, 60 hours EA. We’ve got some pretty lofty goals for E3, so I think the next 4 weeks are going to be pretty insane. I’m going up to St. Louis on Monday morning for [...]
Well, this week certainly flew by, didn’t it? Olivia did well at her cheer competition and made her Dad proud by nailing her elite stunt for the first time. She’s a real go-getter, and hopefully this will give her the confidence she needs to not be a complete basket case for hours before [...]
I want to post. No really, I want to. But after I don’t post for a few days, it’s like I have too much to talk about, and it seems like a daunting proposition to post everything I need to. I get “stuff” built up, and then it would take too long(like [...]
Had another good day at the conference, and made plenty more contacts for the UCF work ahead.
I went to dinner down at Fisherman’s Wharf with my old Tiburon boss, Greg. We took the cable car there and back, and had a great time. On the way back, Thorsten called me and invited me [...]
As expected, seeing lots of friends and catching up at GDC. This is my first time ever “working” a booth, so that’s been a new experience - for those of you that don’t know me, trying to be social with people I don’t know is not one of my strong points (unless you talk [...]
Crazy happenings going on, not enough time to write about them. I’ll attempt to recap…
Jason and I went to the Astros v Braves game on Saturday afternoon, which was fantastic. It was so good to see the boys of summer doing their thing again. While we were waiting in the will call [...]
Between opening day at Lake Mary Little League, the Orlando Magic Cheer competition, my cousin Nikki’s baby shower and going out to dinner with my Uncle Fred and Aunt Martha, it was a reasonably busy weekend. I even managed to level up my Warcraft character, get some new clothes shopping started, give my [...]
We left bright and early for Atlanta Saturday morning, and after stopping at Arby’s for their new fish sandwich, we arrived at the Amerihost Inn around 1:30 or so. We got a second floor room and it was ok, nothing special, but not too bad. Uncle Glen, who’s in town getting some experimental [...]
OK. Everyone has now asked for the Madden Bowl update, so here ya go, in all the gory detail. First, to let you know the scale of the Super Bowl, the closest thing to this that I can think of, and this is actually pretty close when you think about it, was the Winter [...]
There’s no doubt that this has been a Christmas break stuffed to the breaking point with stuff going on. Although we have no plans of leaving Florida anytime soon, we acted like a family crazed to get as much “Florida” stuff done as we possibly could the last week or two.
From reading our main [...]
Well, we finished Christmas out with a bang - and we took off early on the 26th to head to South Florida for a little Fun in the Sun. Right, Dad? 80s, right? Right? Dad?
Anyway, we had a good time visiting my Godmother Aunt Betty, who celebrates her 85th birthday [...]